Extracted from the American National Standard, Crawler, Locomotive and Truck Cranes, ANSI B30.5b-1985, with the. permission of the Publisher the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 345 E. 47th StrÃ¦t, New York, New York 10017.
clarification (Noun). The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent. statementâin this case, a clarificationâmay be required, stating that the teachers then have time to appeal their dismissal before the termination takes effect. A clarification is not the same as a correction, which corrects factual errors in a published story.
In linguistics, amelioration is the upgrading or elevation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a negative sense develops a positive one. Also called melioration or elevation. Amelioration is less common than the opposite historical process, called pejoration.